Would you rather be fined $100 000 or jailed for 10 years?

You have reached a scenario that forces you to make this decision, decide!

After reading and thinking about it, yeah I would definitely go with the fine!!!

American or Swedish prison?

100,000 in debt is, like, two tours tops. We're there 'till at least 2014 anyway so... bam, debt paid.

Just your local prison.

What happens if you are fined money but can't pay?

fined for sure. Even if you have to declare bankruptcy, its better than being in jail for a decade.

so thats like 75k € ?...I'd choose that, even over a finnish prison... 10 years is a long time.

Prison, man. (Swedish - or Danish, since thats my nationality)

I would challenge myself and see how many college degrees I could take, how many languages I could learn.

Now that I think about it, maybe I should just rob a bank, send all the money to Greece or Africa, and just get my no responsabilities on and start learning ;)

Fined. Would lose that amount of money in terms of lost income way before the prison term was up.

I would take the fine. No way am I wasting 10 years of my life in jail.

Fuck prison, ill pay whatever, seriously, even if i dont have the money, ill find it somehow.

@nintendoeats said:

What happens if you are fined money but can't pay?

Depends. Can face things like having your wages garnished, loss of legal privileges (driver's license, child visitation), etc.. Can even become ineligible for or lose your job in some cases. Certain professions have fiduciary duties as component and inability to pay can knock you out of the running.

Honestly, I can't imagine how anyone could view 10 years in prison as the better option...

20 years of paying the debt or constant homosexual sodomy in a 10 year span?

Suicide.

i'd move to another country.

As an American, definitely the fine.

Fine if I can just go bankrupt.

I'd pay the fine. I think I would die in prison.

The fine. Prison is rough. I'd rather be in debt my whole life and be able to live at least a somewhat normal life.

Anyone who picks prison clearly doesn't realize just how rough prison can be. Not that I've ever lived in one, mind you.

I would defiantly pay the fine, even if I had to sell literally everything to get it.

I would be able to make up the money in 10 years time, and prison is really fucking bad

@MooseyMcMan said:

The fine. Prison is rough. I'd rather be in debt my whole life and be able to live at least a somewhat normal life.

Anyone who picks prison clearly doesn't realize just how rough prison can be. Not that I've ever lived in one, mind you.

I've seen OZ. I've been there friend-brother...

I'll take the fine since I don't look scary and tough enough to go through ten years of prison unscathed, and I can at least live a more or less normal (but still shitty) life.

Fine. Ten years is a long ass time.

I would take the fine. No way am I wasting 10 years of my life in jail.

@LetsRockBaby said:

I'll take the fine since I don't look scary and tough enough to go through ten years of prison unscathed, and I can at least live a more or less normal (but still shitty) life.

This

100 000 isn't THAT much. I can totaly see myself paying it way before the prison term would have ended.

@nintendoeats said:

What happens if you are fined money but can't pay?

You can only be fined for money/possessions (assets being the technical term) you own. So if they wanted to fine you for 100,000 and you only had an accumulated wealth of 50000 they could only get 50000 off of you.

Or at least that is how it works in England.

@BeachThunder said:

Honestly, I can't imagine how anyone could view 10 years in prison as the better option...

This. Fuck that other noise.

The fine.

I'd rather pay the fine, because less than a year's salary versus a decade of being shived and having to constantly watch your back in prison is no fucking contest.

Wha-?
 
I seriously can't wrap my  mind around anyone picking a decade off their live stuck in a cage over some stress(or a lot of stress, depending on your income, but still).

I value my freedom at a lot more than $100,000.

Definitely the fine. I don't want things in my b-hole.

Unless you have no friends and family and you make less than 10,000 a year, the fine is the clear choice.

@Jesus_Juice said:

Unless you have no friends and family and you make less than 10,000 a year, the fine is the clear choice.

Don't forget the cost of living. At $10,000/yr, you'd have nothing to pay the fine after making even the most basic living expenses. But, yeah, I'd rather just be on the run if I couldn't afford it over going to prison. An innocent person in prison has to be about the most terrifying experience, ever.

The fine for sure. Just file for bankruptcy and it goes away. Learn the system, son.

@Wertt said:

fined for sure. Even if you have to declare bankruptcy, its better than being in jail for a decade.

I have just the thing for that here in my image thingy

100k for me.

Its not that mutch more than my student loan. :(

Are we talking 10 year sentence? If so I'd take that. You'd probably get out in 3 years on good behavior if its a nonviolent crime, as opposed to the decades you'd be in debt from a fine

Most definitely the fine. I'd pay extra just to stay out of prison.

I would 
FAKE MY OWN DEATH
If that isn't possible I'd pay the fine.

Take the fine; never pay.

100,000.

I'd get the money. Somehow. Probably violently.

Anal Rape 
or 
$100000 
 
$100000

fined for sure. Even if you have to declare bankruptcy, its better than being in jail for a decade.

What kind of a sick scenario is this?!!??!

I would go for the debt, I think I could pay it off (I don't know if you guys know but i'm kinda Batman)

Fine. Easily.